Cuomo’s Stand and Deliver

The Democrat takes on the unions with major schools reforms.

Jan. 23, 2015 7:02 pm ET

The big if hardly earth-shattering news in New York is that Sheldon Silver, the long-time speaker of the Assembly and one of the three people who run Albany, was indicted this week on corruption charges. The big and surprising news is that the indictment enhances the chances that Governor Andrew Cuomo can pass the ambitious education reforms he announced this week.

Mr. Cuomo refused to challenge liberal orthodoxy against natural gas fracking, but he does seem ready to take on the teachers unions. His proposals attack the failing...

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